The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50295   Message #762185
Posted By: harvey andrews
08-Aug-02 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: How organised is your home library?
Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
Ah now, books are my real passion. I have a room in our house which is my library. I group by subject for non-fiction and by author for fiction. I award each book I read a score of one to five, if it fails to make five (and there are five+ and five++ categories) it goes to a second hand dealer I sell to, except those fiction authors I collect, Hardy, Simenon, Gissing, Cheever, and Stanley Middleton.But fiction is only a quarter of my library. Favourite categories are music, history, current affairs and biographies and autobiographies of anyone creative in the arts. I've sold complete collections of others like Graham Greene knowing I'd never re-read them at my time of life! I have a record of every book I've ever read since 1973 and if they were still in the house we couldn't move, but the ones I love stay with me.An ideal day out is Hay On Wye, the book village here in Britain, but every town now has its charity shops and its remainder outlets and I'm amazed at what I can sometimes find for a pound or two. At the moment I have some 700 books I haven't yet read on all manner of sunjects. I love them as artifacts..the way they're made, printed, smell, feel.. I could go on, but true bibliophiles know what I mean! Sorry to go on, but it's a passion!!!